by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Behavioral Sciences is the 177th most popular major in the country with 4,169 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 650 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 598 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 11 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in behavioral sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in behavioral sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Martin Methodist College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Martin Methodist is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pulaski, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Glenville State College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Glenville State College is a public institution located in Glenville, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at Glenville State College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. UNC Chapel Hill is a large public school situated in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It awarded 515 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Behavioral Sciences at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tennessee Wesleyan University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. TWU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Athens, Tennessee. It awarded 8 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Behavioral Sciences at Tennessee Wesleyan University
Out of the 11 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia College landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Columbia, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s behavioral sciences students in 2020-2021.
With a ranking of #6, University of West Georgia did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. University of West Georgia is located in Carrollton, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Behavioral Sciences at University of West Georgia
With a ranking of #7, Athens State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Athens, Alabama, this small public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s behavioral sciences students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at Athens State University
Trevecca Nazarene University ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. TNU is a small school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 3 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
With a ranking of #9, Duke University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Columbia Southern University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Columbia Southern University is a private for-profit institution located in Orange Beach, Alabama. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at Columbia Southern University
University of Holy Cross came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region ranking. UHC is a small school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 0 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at University of Holy Cross
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